New Communities
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Rules
The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.
1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.
A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.
B. No illegal content.
C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.
D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.
E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.
2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/[email protected])
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
FAQ:
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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Aren’t there already a lot of these communities out there? Like:
There are more communities for this topic as ~~unsers~~ users, where is the point?
I'm not familiar with the term unsers. However, there is a point for multiple communities. Lemmy is meant to be decentralized with no central authority, leading to multiple communities that are the same (or with similar topics) that have different rules and moderators.
As an example, the first one is based on posting AI generated images with no specific platform while the second one is to share tips, questions, and images created on Midjourney only. This shows the differences, but even if the topics were entirely the same, it would be important for choice and decentralization
While I think that you are partly right. There is also a problem of a fragmented user base with nearly the same interest. Because a lot of these
communitieswill become forgotten earlier than later.Lemmy doesn't have a huge user base like Reddit currently, and maybe will never have one. So, in my opinion, it doesn't make sense to try to create a new
communityfor every niche topic out there if there is already a suitingcommunity, while existing ones do not get any attention. Lemmy is federated, not decentralized, which is somewhat part of the difficulty.Furthermore, did you try to be part of one of the existing
communitiesbecause you mentioned different rules and mods? I think that might counteract the fragmentation.This being said, feel free to create whatever
communityyou wish to create, I just wanted to point that out, and might be helpful for those who like to join one of the existing once.Note: When I referred to unsers, I, of course, meant users the lemmings using this platform, this was a misspelling.
Federated is when multiple unrelated instances of a software can communicate and share with one another. Decentralized is when there is no central point, no one set of servers, and there is choice which is what Lemmy is and it's not centralized like Reddit is. Lemmy can be both federated and decentralized.
They even say in the introduction in the Docs, that I will link below, that "Federation is a form of decentralization. Instead of a single central service that everyone uses, there are multiple services that any number of people can use."
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html?highlight=decentr#introduction
I think there is some semblance of misunderstanding. I only moderate three communities and those are for communities that I did not see any alternatives for at the beginning, after searching for them.
I did not try to be part of the existing communities first as I did not create this one at all either. This community is for discovery and promotion of new communities. I post them to help give choices that people may not be aware of and fragmentation is not necessarily a bad thing in the first place. Fragmented communities can make the communities smaller, leading to an actual sense of community. Bigger does not always mean better.
Lemmy is meant to be decentralized like said before and a point of that is that there is no one place that controls the whole federation. While it might not make sense to you, the decentralized nature gives people the ability to create and interact with the communities they choose and don't need to go to one place even if it's a niche topic